On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Vaj <vajradh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > > On Nov 7, 2011, at 7:40 PM, feste37 wrote: > > Good question. I did TM for more than 30 years, but then about 7 or 8 > years ago, I lost the desire to do it. This happened quite quickly, as I > recall, over a period of maybe a few months. I just no longer had any > desire to meditate, so I stopped doing it and have never gone back to it. > Having said that, I still think it's a good technique that can dramatically > change people's lives for the better, especially in the first year or so of > practice, although I don't think it accomplishes all that its most ardent > advocates claim for it, especially over the long term. > > > > Interesting how certain, once pressing needs or desires, can just > disappear, leaving no impulse to pursue them any longer. > > So why do you think people seem to get diminishing returns with decades of doing TM/TMSP? It's all so exciting during the first few years of TM, the first 2 advanced techniques, the first few years of the TMSP. I just can't buy the argument that one's working on deeper and more extensive stress/karma. If that were so, every few years, at least, there's be a lurch forward. But this isn't. Indeed people I know who come to IA for a few months every year and go back home actually find their quality of life degrading. And yes, they pay $25-$50/EUR 25/EUR 50 to get frequent checkings.
